PROJECTS

MARÍA ELÍA TANGOS VOICE + PIANO

María Elía has been exploring tango since the year 2000 when she lead two seasons at the legendary Café Tortoni in the city of Buenos Aires. Later she dueted with the prestigious pianist Hernán Lugano onvarious stages in Patagonia participating in the 8th Worldwide TangoSummit and the 2015 Worldwide Tango Festival in Buenos Aires along with the Edgardo Acuña Quintet.

Since 2007 she has developed a personalsynthesis approach from the piano and her voice resulting in a 2015 recordingsession at Álvaro Torres Studio in the city of Buenos Aires, rendering eleventangos included in her first solo album, DESDE MI MISMA. The disc proposes adialog with an extraordinary dynamics between the voice and piano. These aretangos with a personal view on the works of such representative writers andcomposers as Contursi and Dames, Gardel and Le Pera, Cadícamo and Cobián, theExpósito brothers, Manzi and Piana among others. The disc contains stylizedarrangements, with references and sounds taken from other musical genrestransitioned by the artist. María Elía provides a solid and powerful artisticidentity to her work with a great deal of interpretative power in a one-cutalbum, resulting from the most intimate influences of her exploration on boththe piano and her voice itself- a distinctive hallmark through which shedeploys her authenticity and highest potential of her musical talent.

The artist introduced a largepart of her record material in 2013 in a series of important shows and theatersin Argentina such as C.C. de la Cooperación, La Noche de los museos, Dain UsinaCultural, Museo Casa Carlos Gardel, Auditorio Fondo Nacional de las Artes,Museo La Botica del Ángel, Auditorio Radio Nacional Bariloche and Casa de la Cultura from Junín de los Andes. Similarly, she did twenty concertsin three tours between 2014 and 2016 along European cities in Germany, Franceand Switzerland [such as Paris, Stuttgart, Montreux, Zurich among others]

DESDE MÍ MISMA ALBUM REVIEWS

“María sings tango with utter candidness and the key to such way of singing is how she accompanies herself on the piano- the accompaniment itself that constructs her phrasing”MAURO APICELLA LA NACIÓN

“Valuable disc by María Elía, especially the arrangements”

RICARDO SALTON AMBITO FINANCIERO

“María Elía takes on the role of both singer and pianist. Her version of “Volver” offers a personal precious perspective about tradition”

NICOLÁS RUSSO REVISTA VEINTITRES

“With “Desde mí Misma” María Elía captures a provocative and powerful look of a repertoroire made up of classic tangos”

AGENCIA TELAM

“The cucial voice: María Elía takes a deep breath in her album “Desde mí Misma” along with her piano and voice embarking on a moving journey through some classic tangos” SITIO WEB FRACTURA EXPUESTA

“A great album which walks off the usual beaten track performing with extraordinary singing attitudes”

JORGE GARCÍA REVISTA DIGITAL EL AMANTE CINE

“María Elía’s debut record results in minimalism, her voice has the personal color and presence of a major orchestra and other intimate versions offered to the listener with a feeling of authentic complicity”DANIEL HOFFER REVISTA HECHO EN BUENOS AIRES

“A clear voice mighty in the word convinced in the most exciting moments of the story that she says and in the details, the nuances on the edge of silence ALEJANDRO MARECO LA VOZ DEL INTERIOR

“A most personal piano and voice work and very much in the style of Diana Krall”

LATIN AMERICAN MUSICMARÍA ELÍA vocals & pianoDANIEL MESSINA drummerTogether they work on original compositions and other songs from South America by importan composers: Atahualpa Yupanqui, Gustavo Leguizamón, Fito Paez, Luis Alberto Spinetta or Ivan Lins. Argentinian talented musicians in Germany who work on their own personal arrangements. Their music is based in elements of folclore from their country and rhythms from “Rio de la Plata” like Candombe, incorporating elements of jazz and improvisation. Music to listen it with an open heart where emotions have priority. Drummer Daniel Messina is mainly known in Germany for his work with the organist Barbara Dennerlein. He has a lot of albums with their own compositions and he had played in a lot of eropean and latin american music festivals. www.danielmessina.de

NeXo is a musical collaboration project aiming to foster exchanges and learning between following the influences of the Celtic the new generation of folk musicians from Scotland, Wales, Galicia and Latin America migration from Europe to Latin America.

Then NeXo presented its “Atlantic Root Music at the Celtic Connections Festival, which took place at Glasgow, Scotland, in January 2016- a live event with over 5000 people- and became a success to the audience and the critics. NeXo was one of the 10 shows chosen for the BBC by Donald Shaw, Director of Celtic Connections.

It's a project delivered by British Council, Wales Arts International and Xunta de Galicia with the support of Creative Scotland and SGAE, and produced by JAU. The project musically will be designed and facilitated by three international leaders in their fields (who have also curated the mix of artists): Fernando Isella (Latin America), Rómulo Sanjurjo (Galicia) and Donald Shaw.